I pray the protests do not end until our demands for justice are actualized. The system must feel this the way we feel it and carry it daily. The social disruption is critical. The devaluing of black lives has been normalized in this country. We must reprogram the nations psyche. Traffic being halted. Bridges being seized. Campuses being shut down. Shopping being stopped. We will disrupt your comfort zone - endlessly. When we shut down Brooklyn Bridge, we knew thousands of American citizens from all walks of life were disrupting the social order nationwide. Many ask what difference protests make. They remind us we dont have to accept the world as it is. That we have the power to seize reality. The protests empower everyday people who may feel devalued and defeated. They declare: Whose streets? OUR streets! They seize their agency. The system towers over us. Cripples us. Through protest, we rise above the power of the system via power of the people. We stand tall. The protests are also racially unifying in ways nothing else is in America. We fight in a rainbow of collective communal rage. We become one. White folks risk their lives on freeways, get arrested, shed tears, go hungry, lose sleep to declare #BlackLivesMatter right alongside us. When we think of white officers who savagely kill our brothers and sisters, we must not forget the white freedom fighters who #ShutItDown. We must remember that we protest not against people. But against forces. Against systems. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. The ole boys network rooted in white supremacy and patriarchy is at the heart of this brutality without impunity. We must defeat that force. The police officers who commit these demonic acts of state terror (whether white or not) are the epitome of white supremacy and patriarchy. When we mobilize in the name of justice, love for the other and human decency, we epitomize beloved community - the world as it should be. I am not advocating for an absence of anger. Righteous anger is godly. But I refuse to be imprisoned by and surrender my power over to hate.
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 15:31:35 +0000
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